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Date Revised
Changes Made
21 March 2014
Release Media Director 1.0
18 June 2014
Release Media Director 1.0.1
Important Information
Avid recommends that you read all the information in this ReadMe file thoroughly before installing or
using any new software release.
Terminology
Volume – A volume is considered a folder structure as it is produced by a camera (e.g. Sony
Professional Disc, P2 Card, …) that can be handled in its entirety by an AMA plugin, or
folders with collections of either Op-1a or QuickTime / MP4 files (Canon D5 or GoPro
SDCard, ….)
Supported Volume Types
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Sony:
Panasonic:
QuickTime:
MXF:
XDCAM HD or XDCAM EX structure containing XDCAM HD, IMX or XAVC-Intra media
P2 structure containing AVC-Intra or DVC/DVCPRO media
Folder containing one or more MOV or MP4 containers containing supported media.
Folder containing one or more MXF OP-1a containers with AVC-I, XDCAM, IMX,
DNxHD or DV/DVCPRO media.
Additional volume types can be supported as qualified AMA plugins become available.
Supported Transcode Target Formats
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AVC-Intra 50, AVC-Intra 100
DNxHD 4:4:4, DNxHD High Quality (10 bit), DNxHD High Quality (8 bit), DNxHD Standard Quality,
DNxHD Standard Thin Raster, DNxHD Compact, DNxHD Low Bandwidth
IEC-DV
DV-based 25, DV-based 50, DV-based 100
H.264 800k Class, H.264 2M Class (both with MPEG-1 Layer II and PCM audio)
IMX 30, IMX 40, IMX 50
JFIF 10:1, JFIF 10:1m, JFIF 15:1s
XDCAM-EX 35, XDCAM HD 18, XDCAM-HD 35, XDCAM-HD 50
XAVC-Intra 4:2:0, XAVC-Intra 4:4:4
transparent pass-through
Notes and Limitations
Language and character support
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Fully supported languages are: English, French, German, Swedish, and Polish.
Media | Director is ready to support Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and, to a limited extent, other
Unicode character sets for end user relevant areas. In detail this means:
o Supported by Media | Director in:
 Clip and PAM folder name building rules
o Not supported by Media | Director in:
 Filenames
 Other Operating System visible items (e.g. ISIS directories, temp directories,
etc.)
Media | Director only supports characters from the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Media | Director does not support characters from the Unicode supplementary planes.
Important: Other products (e.g. Media Composer) typically used with Media | Director may
have different or limited support for international character sets. Please check interoperability
for every product involved separately before workflow pipelines that rely on international
character sets.
Media Ingest
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Stitching is not supported in this release of Media | Director.
AMA workflows for media with interleaved audio (e.g. Sony IMX, GoPro) require Interplay
Production 3.1 and Media Composer 8.1 or better
General:
o 720p off-speed (23.98, 24, 25, 29.97) as source formats aren’t supported for
transcoding and consolidation.
o NTSC and PAL progressive (25 and 29.97 SD formats) source formats aren’t
supported for transcoding and consolidation.
o Op-1a media with unknown duration is not supported by the AMA MXF plugin.
o QuickTime media that is exported from Media Composer applications will require the
Avid Codec Pack to be installed before it can be processed by Media | Director.
o Audio-only media is not supported.
o Source media with alpha channel isn’t supported for transcode and consolidation.
o Media with 4k resolution and corresponding aspect ratio are not, yet, supported
Transcoding
o Cross edit-rate transcoding isn’t supported, except:
720p/59.94 or 720p/50 to 1080i/29.97 or NTSC and 1080i/25 or PAL, respectively.
o Transcoding from interlaced to progressive formats (deinterlacing) is not supported.
Consolidating
o Some source formats are not supported for consolidation workflows with Media
Composer and Interplay Production Transcode. Please see the list below for formats
that are supported for consolidation workflows.
o Media | Director ‘full volume’ consolidation must be triggered from the Media |
Director Drop Utility.
Registering
o Currently Media | Director does not generate head frames for the clip in Interplay
Production when running park and register (without transcode) workflows.
Audio Processing
o On consolidate and transcode audio is always written as single channel Avid OP
Atom files
Other
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There is no automatic enforcement of the maximum file count per folder on ISIS (5000 items
per folder). File count limitations must be implemented through suitable storage rules, using
the week or month tokens.
Media | Director is supported only for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server
2012 R2.
If a park/register/transcode workflow is run more than once with the same media, Media |
Director may create and append multiple edit resolutions to the asset in Interplay. Duplicate
resolutions are not rejected.
Performance
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Volumes with very short clips adversely affect throughput due to the processing overhead
involved. The documented throughput is valid for clips of at least 10 minutes duration or
longer where processing and setup times are less relevant.
For AMA plugins that work in sample provider mode, the maximum achievable throughput
depends strongly on the performance of the plugin. Some plugins may, even with multiple
parallel media processor services running, not be able to achieve 100% server usage.
User Interface:
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Changes to the layout in the Media | Director Drop Utility don’t get persisted.
The Media | Director Drop Utility will limit copy operations to 3 parallel volumes from different
discs at the same time.
Parking volumes to an already existing location on the parking storage is prevented and will
fail to protect the already existing media. Please use rules that build hierarchies and ensure
unique names (such as appending a GUID to the volume copy) to avoid naming collisions on
the parking storage.
Pending jobs in the JobBuilder staging area of the Media | Director Drop Utility will be
removed after a restart of the Media | Director Drop Utility or a reconnection to the Media |
Director Central Runtime service.
Progress UI
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200 active (running) and 200 inactive (failed, succeeded) processes and 50 users are allowed
After a restart of the Media | Director Central Runtime service all active and inactive
processes disappear from Progress UI
Supported source formats for consolidation workflows
Source Codec
Raster
AVC-I 100
1080i
1080p
720p
AVC-I 50
1080i
1080p
720p
DNxHD 100
DNxHD 110
DNxHD 110x
DNxHD 115
DNxHD 120
1080i
1080p
720p
720p
720p
1080p
DNxHD 175
1080i
1080p
720p
1080i
1080p
720p
1080p
DNxHD 175x
1080p
DNxHD 145
Frame Rate
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
29.97
29.97
59.94
29.97
29.97
23.98
24
25
25
50
29.97
29.97
59.94
23.98
24
23.98
DNxHD 185
DNxHD 240
DNxHD 290
DNxHD 36
1080i
1080p
720p
1080i
1080p
720p
1080i
1080p
720p
1080i
1080p
720p
1080p
1080p
720p
DNxHD 365
DNxHD 365x
DNxHD 40
DNxHD 440
DNxHD 440x
DNxHD 444 350x
1080p
1080p
720p
1080p
1080p
1080p
DNxHD 444 365x
DNxHD 444 440x
DNxHD 45
1080p
1080p
1080p
720p
720p
720p
DNxHD 185x
DNxHD 220
DNxHD 220x
DNxHD 50
DNxHD 60
DNxHD 75
DNxHD 80
DNxHD 85
DNxHD 90
DNxHD 90x
1080p
720p
1080p
1080i
1080p
720p
1080p
720p
720p
24
25
25
50
25
25
50
29.97
29.97
59.94
29.97
29.97
59.94
50
59.94
23.98
24
25
50
50
23.98
59.94
59.94
23.98
24
25
29.97
29.97
25
29.97
23.98
25
50
29.97
23.98
24
25
25
50
59.94
23.98
25
23.98
DNxHD-TR 120
DNxHD-TR 145
DVCAM
DVCPRO
DVCPRO 50
DVCPROHD
1080i
1080i
NTSC
PAL
NTSC
PAL
NTSC
PAL
1080i
720p
IMX 30
XAVCI-100
NTSC
PAL
NTSC
PAL
NTSC
PAL
1080p
XAVCI-200
1080p
XAVCI-50
1080p
XDCAM EX 25
1080i
IMX 40
IMX 50
1080p
720p
XDCAM EX 35
1080i
25
25
29.97
29.97
25
29.97
25
29.97
25
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
29.97
25
29.97
25
29.97
25
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
50
59.94
23.98
25
29.97
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
25
1080p
720p
XDCAM HD 18
1080i
1080p
XDCAM HD 25
1080i
1080p
720p
XDCAM HD 35
1080i
1080p
720p
XDCAM HD422 50
1080i
1080p
720p
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
50
59.94
25
29.97
23.98
25
29.97
23.98
50
59.94
Known issues
MPI-11011
MSP_MXF plugin does not support op1a with unknown duration
MPI-11012
MPI-13331
When transcoding or rewrapping Op1a (ama-to-opatom) with undefined AspecRatio defined
AspectRatio appears
AMA Asset info extraction fails to find video and audio tracks in specific OP Atom XDCAM-HD 50
1080i 25ndf 16x1pcm media
MRW might crash on consolidate and transcode for media where the IndexTable does not
provide DeltaEntries
Transcode fails: Invalid edit rate for current DNxHD CB picture essence
MPI-13438
QuickTime AMA plug-in does not create AMA-lined AAF for some audio-only media
MPI-13498
MPI-9930
Transcode with interlacing at the same frame rate of [email protected] / [email protected] clips
failed with exception "Could not resolve transcode processing chain for specified source/target
formats"
QuickTime plug-in doesn't put CodingEquations property to the CDCI descriptor for Avid-created
Uncompressed QuickTime media
MRW fails on AmaToOpAtomRewrapping and transcoding of truncated op1a clips
TI-606
Browsing help pane messes up other client UI
TI-562
Occasionally unable to submit jobs via the MDDU client
TI-445
Job doesn't start if services aren't completely up, but no message indicating so
TI-407
After a reconnect to the server the MDDU no longer displays new jobs in Progress Pane
TI-319
Mac Drop UI profile constants field have issues with highlighting
TI-295
Drop UI occasionally truncates profile names without ellipsis
TI-293
Drop UI Error symbol can block text
TI-291
Drop UI error window resizing moves close button
TI-283
Drop Utility error window doesn't fit entirety of message text
TI-269
Token should replace data entered after {
TI-238
Pane layout should be retained on shutdown for subsequent launch
MPI-11547
MPI-12874
MPI-13518

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